We have a question from Romano in the UK. Hope everything is going well over there in Britain. Romano asks, “Just a quick question on how to hold a golf club in the grip. Is there a set way like palms of hand in the center of the body and the club settle so that everything is, then take your grip. Or is there another way of doing it?
'I have found that more central my hands are to my body, and then take the grip. the harder it is for me to maintain my solid and firm grip. Sometimes, at the top of my backswing my wrists slightly break, causing a straight right shot. I found that moving the grip end of the club slightly toward my left leg and actively closing the clubface a little I can hold the firm wrist and not hit it right, but sort of straight. Can you kelp on this?”
O.K., Romano, what you just described, when you do it right as you move it toward the left hip that is seems a better grip and you maintain it thought the whole swing, you hit the ball much straighter. That is the correct way that I teach.
When you do it, when you have the shaft kind of pointing at the center of your body or your belt buckle, that is what I consider incorrect. At that point, when you put your forward hand on the golf club you already have a cupped wrist. Therefore, you hand, your arm, and you fingers are not in dynamic balance.
If you try to start from there you have to have as lot more rotation to take the club back straight into the catcher's mitt. That is not a dynamically way of gripping the club. Unfortunately, having the club lined up or pointing at your belt buckle and gripping it, is probably the number one way a gripping the club that is taught throughout the world as compared to, as we say, grip it towards you left hip socket.
Dr. Armstrong actually teaches the grip by standing up and letting your hands hang by your side and, if you're a right hander, you just kind of drop the club in your left hand and then you lift it up from there. Lifting it up from there, you have the shaft more in line, right straight down from the shoulder socket right down to your hands and right down the shaft to the head of the golf club. Always point at your left hip so you're in total dynamic balance. That is the absolutely correct way.
I don't want to make this sound like I got a PR for the new videos, but we just brought out some new video and I went into extreme, extreme detail about gripping the club, even to the point of talking about what you should feel in certain muscle groups, in your forearm and your wrist and in your hands and your fingers. All are related to exactly the way you just said you found the correct way to do it, or the way it worked the best. The club was pointing more toward your forward hip.
What you conceived to do is, in fact, the best way. So keep doing it and you're going to find, and all of you out there who are reading or listening, you take your grip, where your left arm and shaft are in line, kind of pointing at your left hip. With all of that, you're going to have your forward arm, from the shoulder socket to the hand, right down to the club shaft, the shaft into the hip, will be in a straight line. Therefore your arm, which is now swinging the club and your hand which are holding it, your hands are in dynamic balance, so you'll be able to make a good, controlled golf sing, maintaining your grip pressure, maintaining dynamic balance throughout the swing, as long as you don't cock your wrists.
With all that said, you should now be in a position with good dynamic balance to make those good swings and hit a lot better golf shots and play a lot better golf.
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